Glory: Tropes

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• Your Other Leftin 154 titlesThe soldiers, many if not most of whom had no formal education, had even more trouble than the average volunteer with drills for this reason.Read →
• White Male Leadin 123 titlesColonel Shaw, the white male leader of a unit of African-American soldiers, is the movie's viewpoint character.Read →
• Mistaken for Racistin 306 titlesMulcahy, maybe. He definitely uses racist insults when harshly drilling the black soldiers and it would be rare for a white man from that era to not be bigoted to some degree.Read →
• Historical Villain Upgradein 1,043 titlesColonel James Montgomery is depicted as a marauding racist, making use of freed slaves to pillage and burn Southern towns.Read →
• Scarred Back RevealRare · in 32 titlesTrip, a Black man who escaped slavery and joined the Union Army, is sentenced to be flogged for desertion, as he had gone off base without permission to find a supplier of better shoes for the Black…Read →
• Artistic License – Historyin 3,078 titlesThe US Army banned the use of flogging as a disciplinary measure in 1861, so the scene where private Trip gets flogged is inaccurate, as the movie takes place in 1863.Read →